Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work. G. H. Hardy

Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work


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Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work G. H. Hardy
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He was starving and getting more and more ill in Cambridge. Then someone suggested that he must write to Prof GH Hardy . VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS in reply to Anna G. The Mathematical wonder or 120 statements of theorems on infinite series, . Formal education At the age of 12, Ramanujan is said to have worked out the properties of arithmetical, geometrical and harmonic progressions. 25 year old Ramanujan wrote to Hardy on 16th Jan 1913. Well, his dear UK colleagues let him die of starvation and without medical care. In these lectures, I will present an account of his romantic life, provide a few glimpses into his mathematics and relate the increasing interest in his work and its relevance even today. Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this. This year is the 125th birth anniversary of the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The lost notebook ( just some 87 loose paper sheets , rest about Fractals were stolen) of valuable work done in India in his final year of his life, was finally found by George Andrews in 1976 in England at Wren Library of Trinity college . Ramanujan: Twelve lectures suggested by his life and work. Included are technical lectures on mathematics influenced by Ramanujan's work, public presentations on Ramanujan's notebooks, dance performances and a film about Ramanujan's life. Genius: The life and science of Richard Feynman. The nation is celebrating it as the Year of Mathematics. Once a senior Partly due to his pre-occupation with researches into mathematics, he neglected the study of other subjects. When asked to square this number, he produced the 78-digit answer after 10 weeks' time during which he did his work, held conversations, lived his life, while his astonishing calculating engine continued to grind away at the problem.